Persora: The Golden Best 4, stylized as PERSORA -THE GOLDEN BEST 4-, is a compilation album featuring songs from the Persona series.
Production
Persora: The Golden Best 4 is the fourth in a series of five concept albums that are based on the "Persora Theater" segment of Persona Stalker Club. Viewers would submit what the English lyrics in Persona music sounded like to them in Japanese, and the songs that frequently came up during the Persora segments were collected into the five albums. The album was announced on July 29, 2016 alongside Persora: The Golden Best 3 and Persora Awards 2 as the second of three consecutive Persora releases releasing in the last three months of 2016.[1]
Release
The 16 song album was released on a single disc in November 2016, published by Atlus Co., Ltd. and distributed by Mastard Records.[2] All art for the album was illustrated by Yuji Himukai, the main artist for the Etrian Odyssey series. Alongside the disc, the album came with a 22 page booklet containing liner notes from Persona Stalker Club hosts Tomomi Isomura and Mafia Kajita, vocalists Yumi Kawamura, Lotus Juice, and Shihoko Hirata, album artist Yuji Himukai, Tartarus Theater artist Ryo Yasohachi, director Katsura Hashino, and composer Toshiki Konishi. The booklet also contains lyrics for each song when possible; the misheard lyrics are highlighted and artwork from the show is used on each page to depict what the lyrics were misheard as.
Two bonus tracks were included as tracks 15 and 16 of the album. " PSCV Opening Theme" was the theme song for Persona Stalker Club V, composed and arranged by Toshiki Konishi. The second bonus track, "Reach Out To The Truth (Christmas Arrange)," is aremix of "Reach Out To The Truth," portions of "Dream of Butterfly" as well. The song was originally released for free on volume 47 of Shoji Meguro's Atlus Net blog on December 24, 2007, roughly a month before the announcement of Persona on PSP, with a note that he "mixed tracks from various songs into Out To The Truth."[3]
Tracklist
Personnel
Staff
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Member
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Persora Soramimist
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Illustrations
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Vocals
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Shihoko Hirata Tracks: 1, 3, 12, 13, 14, 16Lotus JuiceTracks: 1, 2, 7, 12Yumi KawamuraTracks: 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 11Minako KotobukiTrack: 10[a]
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Album Production
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Member
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A&R
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Hidemi Muramoto
Masaki Takami
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Mastering Engineer
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Mastering Studio
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Sony Music Studio Tokyo
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Package Design
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Yumemi (imagejack)
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Special Thanks
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Nosoko Minoru Inoue (Maxmix) Tomohisa Ono (MIT Gathering) Dengeki Maoh Editorial Department Megumi Suzuki (imagejack) Yoshikazu Tanaka Hisahiro Takashima Akiyasu Yamamoto Atlus Sound TeamEveryone who submitted Soramimi entries |
Media Promotion
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Shinchi Kiritani (Mastard Records)
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Sales Promotion
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Junya Kawabata (Mastard Records)
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Supervisors
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Takafumi Odoi (Mastard Records)
Kenji Fukui (Lawson HMV Entertainment, Inc.)
Seiichi Ohno (Lawson HMV Entertainment, Inc.)
Ken Sakamoto (Lawson HMV Entertainment, Inc.)
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See also
Notes
References
- ↑ Album Announcement. Archived: [1]. Published June 29, 2016. Retrieved March 27, 2025. p-ch.jp.
- ↑ Release date announcement. Archived: [2]. Published October 17, 2016. Retrieved March 31, 2025. p-ch.jp.
- ↑ "メリークリスマス！アトラスファンの皆様にクリスマスプレゼントです。Reach out to the truthにいろんな曲のトラックを混ぜてみました。" Translation: "Merry Christmas! A Christmas present for all Atlus fans. I mixed tracks from various songs into Reach out to the truth." Shoji Meguro, Meguro's Hobby Diary Vol. 47. Published December 24, 2007. Retrieved March 31, 2025. Atlus Net.
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